Android activations shoot up to 10 million

With the increase in the Android mania world wide, Android is now the top smartphone platform. Google reported that Android device users have downloaded and installed three billion applications from the Android Market at the rate of 500 million per month. Carriers are activating more than 300,000 Android devices every day, a Google executive confirmed. Google Inc. purchased the initial developer of the software, Android Inc., in 2005.

The Android Army invasion continues marching this week as Google announced 350,000 device activations take place each day. Google was activating 200,000 Android devices per day. At the rate of 350,000 per day, Google is selling more than 10 million Android phones per month. Android just chalked up its fourth consecutive month as the top platform when it comes to advertising, Android created a revolution with its special applications in the technology world.

Android handset users are downloading applications at the rate of 500 million per month. In the U.S., two separate studies found that Android captured 44 percent of the smartphone market in the third quarter ahead of Apple and Research in Motion. As a Google product, Android comes with the Google search engine built-in by default.

Android won 48 percent of mobile ad impressions. Apple's iOS followed with 31percent, and RIM came in third with 18percent.Android users are downloading 16.66 million apps per day, 695,000 apps per hour, 11,500 apps per minute, or 193 apps per second. Advertising on Android-based phones is a revenue stream for the search giant and, in fact, makes the Android enterprise within Google profitable all by itself.

Google also noted that Android device users have downloaded and installed three billion applications from the Android Market. The growth of app downloads is outright staggering. Android handset users are downloading applications at the rate of 500 million per month.

In January, Apple announced that more than 10 billion apps have been downloaded. Its store carries about 350,000 apps, which is twice the number of the Android Market, which is somewhere near 180,000. iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch users downloaded five billion apps. Apple has seen another two or three billion downloads since January, and the rate is probably one billion downloads per month (or 33.33 million apps per day, 1.3 million apps per hour, 23,000 apps per minute or 386 apps per second).

Although Google has a larger hand in mobile ad impressions it is in competition with other IT firms concerning the handsets and softwares.